Volume 2: The Consumer Society
By Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman, and David Kiron
Editors Foreword by John Kenneth Galbraith (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997) 385 pages
Table of Contents
- Scope and Definition
Neva R. Goodwin
- Asking How Much is Enough?
Alan Durning - Consumption, Well-Being, and Virtue
David Crocker - The Original Affluent Society
Marshall SahlinsPart One: Examination
William Leiss - Will Raising the Incomes of All Increase the Happiness of All?
Richard Easterlin - The Expansion of Consumption
Allan Schnaiberg - New Analytic Bases for an Economic Critique of Consumer Society
Juliet Schor - Consumption: The New Wave of Research in the Humanities and the Social SciencesColin Campbell
- Consumption in the Affluent Society
David Kiron
- Traumas of Time and Money in Prosperity and Depression
Gary Cross - The Insidious Cycle of Work and Spend
Juliet Schor - Work, Consumption and the Joyless Consumer
Raymond Benton, Jr. - The Study of Consumption, Object Domains, Ideology and Interests and Towards a Theory of Consumption
Daniel Miller - Notes on the Relationship between Production and Consumption
Alan Warde - The Political Economy of Opulence
Harry Johnson - The Increasing Scarcity of Time
Staffan Linder - Part Two: The Commercialization Bias
Fred Hirsch - Changing Consumption Patterns
Alladi Venkates
III. Family, Gender and Socialization
David Kiron and Seymour Bellin
- The Domestic Production of Monies
Viviana Zelizer - Sit-Coms and Suburbs: Positioning the 1950’s Homemaker
Mary Beth Haralovich - Gender as a Commodity
Susan Willis - Gender and Consumption: Transcending the Feminine?
A. Fuat Firat - Meanings of Material Possessions as Reflections of Identity
Helga Dittmar - Friendship or Commodities? The Road Not Taken: Friendship, Consumerism, and Happiness
Robert Lane - Conclusion: Playing with Culture
Stephen Kline
- The History of Consumer Society
Frank Ackerman
- The History of Consumption: A Literature Review and Consumer Guide
Grant McCracken - Changes in English and Anglo-American Consumption from 1550 to 1800
Carole Shammas - Pictorial Prints and the Growth of Consumerism: Class and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Culture
Chandra Mukerji - The Quaker Ethic
David Shi - The Consumer Revolution of Eighteenth-century England
Neil McKendrick - Consumerism and the Industrial Revolution
Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold - Learning to Consume: Early Department Stores and the Shaping of the Modern Consumer Culture (1800-1914)
Rudi Laermans - From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and the Therapeutic Roots of Consumer Culture
T.J. Jackson Lears - The Consumer’s Comfort and Dream
Gary Cross
- Foundations of Economic Theories of Consumption
Frank Ackerman
- Materialism and Modern Political Philosophy
Joel Jay Kassiola - The History of Economics from a Humanistic Perspective
Mark Lutz and Kenneth Lux - Capital, Labour, and the Commodity-Form
Martyn J. Lee - Institutional Economics and Consumption
David Hamilton - Keynes’ Economic Thought and the Theory of Consumer Behavior
S.A. Drakopoulos - Income, Saving, and the Theory of Consumer Behavior
James Duesenberry - Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers’ Demand
Harvey Leibenstein - The Standard of Living and the Capacity to Save
Ragnar Nurkse - The Imperatives of Consumer Demand and the Dependence Effect
John Kenneth Galbraith
- Critiques and Alternatives in Economic Theory
Frank Ackerman
- Alternative Approaches to Consumer Behavior
Raymond Benton, Jr. - The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions
Paula England - Economics, Psychology, and Consumer Behavior
Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold - Behavior and the Concept of Preference
Amartya Sen - The Psychology and Economics of Motivation
Tibor Scitovsky - The Neglected Realm of Social Scarcity
Fred Hirsch - The Demand for Unobservable and Other Nonpositional Goods
Robert Frank - Change and Innovation in the Technology of Consumption
Kelvin Lancaster - Procrastination and Obedience
George Akerlof
VII. Perpetuating Consumer Culture: Media, Advertising and Wants Creation
David Kiron
- The Distorted Mirror: Reflections on the Unintended Consequences of Advertising
Richard Pollay - Modern Consumerism and Imaginative Hedonism
Colin Campbell - Social Comparison, Advertising, and Consumer Discontent
Marsha Richins - Part Two: Diagnosis
William Leiss, Stephen Kline, and Sut Jhally - Introduction
T.J. Jackson Lears - Advertising
Ben Fine and Ellen Leopold - Part One: The Emergence of American Television: The Formative Years and Part Four: Toward a New Video Order: The 1980s
J. Fred MacDonald - Television and the Structuring of Experience
Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentimhalyi - Theories of Consumption in Media Studies
David Morley - Household Debt Problems: Toward a Micro-Macro Linkage
Samuel Cameron
VIII. Consumption and the Environment
Jonathan Harris
- The Allocation and Distribution of Resources
Mark Sagoff - Market and Non-Market Determinants of Private Consumption and their Impacts on the Environment
Mario Cogoy - Consumption: Value-Added, Physical Transformations and Welfare
Herman Daly - Creating the Affluent Society
Clive Ponting - Natural Resource Consumption
World Resources Institute - The Environmental Costs of Consumption
Alan Durning - Creating a Sustainable Materials Economy
John Young and Aaron Sachs
- Globalization and Consumer Culture
Kevin Gallagher
- Development and the Elimination of Poverty
Nathan Keyfitz - Third World Consumer Culture
Russell Belk - Positional Goods, Conspicuous Consumption and the International Demonstration Effect Reconsidered
Jeffrey James - Galbraith Revisited: Advertising in Non-Affluent Societies
Jeffrey James - The Culture-Ideology of Consumerism in the Third World and The Culture Ideology of Consumerism in Urban China: Some Findings from a Survey in Shanghai
Leslie Sklair - Transnational Advertising: Some Consideration of the Impact on Peripheral Societies
Noreen Janus - Transnational Corporations and Third World Consumption: Implications for Competitive Strategies
Rhys Jenkins - Gross National Consumption in the United States: Implications for Third World Development
Thomas Walz and Edward Canda
- Visions of an Alternative
Neva R. Goodwin
- Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren
John Maynard Keynes - Alternatives to Mass Consumption
Jerome Segal - Exiting the Squirrel Cage
Juliet Schor - How to Bring Joy into Economics
Tibor Scitovsky - Alternatives: Qualitative Growth
Fred Block - New Alternatives
Paul Wachtel - A Culture of Permanence
Alan Durning - Living More Simply and Civilization Revitalization
Duane Elgin